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Biewald: Most enterprises have not deployed LLMs into production yet
“I think that LLMs in particular, we talk to a lot of the people and we don't see a ton of people getting them into production yet. And I think it's funny, like VCs are always surprised, like when we tell them that I think that I don't know. I'm bullish on LMS,…”
Lukas Biewald Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 18:09 Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
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Biewald estimates 99% of Global 2000 use ML for core operations
“I bet 99% of the global 2000 is using machine learning for something that they actually really care about.”
Lukas Biewald Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 25:37 Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
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Biewald: Almost all major LLMs were trained using Weights & Biases
“I think all of the major LLMs out there, almost all were trained using weights and biases.”
Lukas Biewald Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 12:17 Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
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Biewald: OpenAI is a W&B customer with a small number of production models
“OpenAI has been, like, a longtime customer. I mean, I consider them, like, extraordinarily sophisticated, and they have a pretty small number of models in, in production, so.”
Lukas Biewald Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 21:23 Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
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Increasing dataset accuracy from 90% to 95% repeatedly halves error rates
“So this is my same data set that I published online, but if you take it from 90% to 95%, you actually have the error rate, and then going up to a hundred percent, you have it again, right?”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 4:43 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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Biewald: Pharma is investing far more in deep learning than realized
“I think pharma is investing way more in deep learning than people realize.”
Lukas Biewald Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 26:42 Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
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Thirty percent of CrowdFlower's crowdsourced workforce is based in the US
“It's also 30% US-based.”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 19:28 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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CrowdFlower claims to have the largest dataset determining if images are funny
“We have a gigantic, maybe the biggest data set available on, isn't image funny?”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 14:12 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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